Okay, the world is a bit wavy around the edges with these new bifocals. It's a lot easier to be still and read a book or be still and look at the computer than it is to work in the kitchen. I feel like I'm in a science fiction movie and reality is warping and twisting on the fringes. But it's actually easier wearing the no-line bifocals than I expected it would be. I hope I feel the same way by the end of tomorrow!
I don't think I could ever do bifocals. Whenever my eyes get to that point, I think I'll opt for reading glasses.
ReplyDeleteLovely picture, Susan. Made me smile to see your smile!
ReplyDeleteI'm anxious to see what you think.
ReplyDeleteAnd Nathan, if your vision goes like mine has you may rethink that. I can read fine without my glasses, but I can't see at a distance without them. And I can't read *with* my glasses. It's a big pain. I always thought I wouldn't do bifocals, but I can't wait.
Nice glasses...but your hair is shorter! That looks nice, too. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cheryl!
ReplyDeleteNathan, I didn't think I could do bifocals either. And I certainly prefered sticking with the reading glasses for as long as I did. I don't know if you remember, but the eye doctor told me two and a half years ago that I needed bifocals and that I should've gotten them a few years earlier than when I finally knuckled under and went to see him. But I didn't get them. Now my eyes are worse. Using reading glasses works great when I'm reading. But when you're at the grocery store and you need your distance glasses, but you also need to see the prices on the shelf and sometimes need to read labels, you can't keep going back and forth with the glasses. At church, I was switching back and forth between my glasses -- reading glasses when I didn't have the hymn or introit memorized, and regular glasses for the liturgy and sermon. But you end up with loose screws (and lenses popping out) from the glasses going on and off all the time. It works as long as you can fake it for reading little bits without the reading glasses. But when you just CAN'T anymore, then the bifocals become quite a relief. I knew a couple of years ago that I would get to that point even if I wasn't there yet. But now I just want to SEE.
Nathan, YES to what Jane said. Reading without your glasses is do-able for a while. But reading with the distance lenses becomes impossible. The only reason I could hold out as long as I did was that I could see under my lenses. Pretty much. Most of the time. In essence, it was like bifocals in that the "correction" by peeking under my lenses was different from the correction in the lenses. But when my eyes started wobbling on that too, I had to get something!
ReplyDeleteAnd Laura, yup, the annual haircut was on Friday. Whenever I get it cut, I'm all psyched to keep it short. But then life happens, and it's another 14 months before I end up at Cost Cutters.
I think you will like them more as each day goes by.
ReplyDeleteI have had them for over 2 years, and I love then for distance, but the reading is still hard. I can't see the computer very well, and I still read better with them completely off. I REALLY want the new surgery. It is like cataract surgery for 50 somethings! hehe
ReplyDeleteSusan, I had no-line bifocals for several years and grew to love them, but once I needed a stronger prescription, the dr. in Sturgeon Bay wouldn't do bifocals again so I'm back to reading glasses and separate glasses for driving. And I don't like it at all. I'm researching drs. now and I'm going to find someone to give me back my blended bifocals :)
ReplyDeletePS Great photo!
Okay, Jane, here's the run-down after three days.
ReplyDeleteThe minor down-sides:
For the ultra-tiny print on medicine bottles I still have to take off my glasses to read it. Or get a magnifying glass.
My friend Robin told me that it made her sea-sick to rake leaves. The one time I went out to shovel with the bifocals instead of the old glasses, I certainly learned what she meant.
Because there is a small area to look through for whatever focus-distance you're aiming at, I keep thinking my glasses must be dirty, or I must have some goops on my eyeball. I'm not used yet to how the whole lens does not correct vision for everything out there to see. I'm still getting used to moving my head to see the words printed on the next page, instead of just moving my eyeballs. This hadn't been a big deal this week until today, when I noticed it particularly in Bible class, bopping across many spots of the book's open pages in micro-seconds, instead of reading straight through a passage. Noticed it too when Pastor was showing me a spread of three pages that need proofreading this evening.
The major up-sides: I can see.
I don't lose my glasses and have to hunt out whatever spot I was in when they last got in the way of my reading and were set down.
I can see.
The screws on my glasses aren't coming loose from on-and-off, on-and-off all the time.
I can see.
And maybe I should mention that I can see!
Oh, wait. One more downside for the adjustment period. It seemed that there was a lot of pressure in my eyeballs the first day. It has decreased. But it was uncomfortable that first day or so.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it feels like I'm getting a stye in one eye, so maybe the pressure-feeling was just coincidence. I'm not sure if the feeling is eye strain or something to do with a virus.